Keeper IPA
Castle Island Brewing Company in Norwood, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
IPA Regular|
Score
6.79
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Can (7/9/24) from Total Wine & More, Burlington. Hazy golden yellow with light sparkle, thin head with good retention and awesome rings of lacing. Aroma is mixture of citrus, pine and bittering hops. Taste follows aroma but more assertive. Smooth texture, average carbonation and dry, yeasty finish as taste. East-meets-West hybrid but more West. Flagship IPA from a brewery as old as Castle Island seems from a bygone era.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
On tap at Five Horses Tavern. Pours bronze. Grapefruit, toffee, grain, some bitter pithiness, a little straw. Medium body. Not great.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Refrigerated pint can, canned December 15, 2021 poured into a glass. Hazy golden with big white head. Aroma is herbal hops, medium body, low carbonation, and little lacing. Taste is herbal hops.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Pours a slightly hazy amber from a can. Big pine aroma and flavor, classic IPA. Good beer.
Jow (8011) reviewed Keeper IPA from Castle Island Brewing Company 5 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Golfing with my buddies thanks to DK for supplying the hooch. Orange pour. Nose is citrus and pine. Tastes of crackers, oranges, pine. Medium bodied.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Can, from Cambridge Wine & Spirits, Medford, ME. Pours cloudy dark orange with foamy light beige head, faint grassy hops aroma, medium carbonation, medium bitter resinous taste with grassy hops, thin body, long bitter finish. Classical American IPA, nothing extra.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Can - etched - pours gold white head - nose/taste of pine, lemon, citrus, dry cracker - medium body
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Pours slightly hazed gold into a shaker. Bright white head with excellent retention recedes leaving soapy lacing. Caramel and resin aromas. Soft with sour malt and lemon joy upfront turning to stringent pith in the lasting finish.
Mansquito (18977) reviewed Keeper IPA from Castle Island Brewing Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Highland Liquors, Newton cans: pours orange with a frothy white head. Aroma is citrus and pine with maltiness present. Taste is a bit on the bitter side. Pine and stuff. Somewhat sweet. Pretty good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5
Poured into a snifter showing well filtered honey amber with half a finger of clean white foam. The nose shows sweet caramel malts with brief notes of pine in the background. The palate is moderately carbonated and medium bodied. Flavors of malt very well balanced with juicy, clean pine and light pineapple. Finish shows a moderate sharp IPA finish.